The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized luge / skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers.

From this family also came the natural scientists Otto and Emil Warburg the art historian and cultural theorist Abraham Moritz Warburg, better known as Aby Warburg, who founded the Warburg Institute.

Luigi Colani, ( born in Berlin on 2 August 1928 as Lutz Colani ), is a Swiss-born German industrial designer whose father came from Madulain near St. Moritz in Switzerland.

His father Moritz ( 1825 – 1880 ) was a successful lumber merchant who came from Breslau in the middle of the 19th century.

After the fraternal agreement between the four brothers of John George I, Elector of Saxony, in 1657 the Naumburg district came into the possession of the secondogeniture of Saxe-Zeitz, which was inherited by Moritz, the youngest of the brothers.

-- A Texas halfback who doesn't even know the team's plays, Eldon Moritz, ranks fourth in Southwest Conference scoring after three games.

Lahr / Baden: Moritz Schauenberg, 1954.

Michael Moritz ( born 12 September 1954 ) is a Welsh-American venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in Silicon Valley, a former member of the board of directors of Google, and a philanthropist and writer.

Johann Nelböck, also Hans Nelböck ( May 12, 1903, Brandel near Lichtenegg in Upper Austria – February 3, 1954, Vienna ) was an Austrian former student of Moritz Schlick, who was the founder of the group of philosophers and scientists known as the Vienna Circle.

Founded by John Derevlany and Robert Moritz, the band achieved a cult following for their efforts to over-amplify tiny four-stringed ukuleles, and then smash them mercilessly during performances.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.

Some of the key figures in this movement were Otto Neurath, Moritz Schlick and the rest of the Vienna Circle, along with A. J.

Among the persecuted were the poet Ernst Moritz Arndt, the publisher Johann Joseph Görres and the " Father of Gymnastics " Ludwig Jahn.

The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The beginnings of the Bobsleigh were humble, starting when English tourists were enticed to stay over the winter in the mineral spa town of St. Moritz, Switzerland by the successful marketing of hotelier Caspar Badrutt.

This was the first time Olympic competitions in skeleton were held during an Olympics outside of St. Moritz.

Most of the athletic venues were already in existence from the first time St. Moritz hosted the Winter Games in 1928.

It is likely that two stories were conflated, and Swedish sources suggest that the Elizabeth Moritz story is probably incorrect.

The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 11 – 19, 1928 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Instead, the 1948 Winter Olympics were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Lyons was a hub for both the Resistance and the Gestapo, whose Section 4, under Klaus Barbie, and Section 6, under August Moritz, were models of application in their pursuit of Resistance members and Jews.

When Schütz lived with his parents, his musical talents were discovered by Moritz von Hessen-Kassel in 1599.

When the Winter Olympic Games were held at St. Moritz in 1928 and 1948, the Cresta Run was included in the program, marking the only two times skeleton was included as an Olympic event before its permanent addition in 2002 to the Winter Games.

Many previous errors in former biographies were corrected and additional information supplied in Carl von Weber's Moritz Graf von Sachsen, Marschall von Frankreich, nach archivalischen Quellen Count of Saxony, Marshal of France, after archival sources ( Leipzig, 1863 ), in Saint-René Taillandier's Maurice de Saxe, étude historique d ' après les documents des archives de Dresde de Saxe, historical study according to the documents from the archives of Dresden ( 1865 ) and in C. F.

Among the first settlers there were scientists, naturalists, writers and painters, such as Karl Ferdinand Appun, Karl Moritz, Anton Goering, Ferdinand Bellerman ( painter who was sponsored by Humboldt ) and many others, most of whom are buried in the city cemetery.

There were two female Councillors serving simultaneously for the first time in 2006, and three out of seven Councillors have been women from 2007 till 2010 when Simonetta Sommaruga was elected as the fourth woman in government in substitution of Moritz Leuenberger, putting men in minority for the first time in history.

As much of the legion as was present: 6666 men ( perhaps a mystical number ) were massacred, becoming the legendary Theban legion, which was declared to be saints in toto, St. Moritz, the site of the massacre, being named after the commander.

Moritz was bothered during the first two games this year by a pulled muscle in the thigh of his right ( kicking ) leg and, as a result, several of his successful conversions have gone barely far enough.

A bibliography by P. Culmann is given in Moritz von Rohr's Die Bilderzeugung in optischen Instrumenten.

The unsymmetrical form of the meridional pencil — formerly the only one considered — is coma in the narrower sense only ; other errors of coma have been treated by Arthur König and Moritz von Rohr, and later by Allvar Gullstrand.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

' The term was used in 1859 by German philosophers and frequent collaborators Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft.

Gödel then studied number theory, but when he took part in a seminar run by Moritz Schlick which studied Bertrand Russell's book Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, he became interested in mathematical logic.

The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.

( There had been a short-lived paper memetics publication starting in 1990, the Journal of Ideas edited by Elan Moritz.

Max and Moritz is the first published original foreign children ’ s book in Japan which was translated into rōmaji by Shinjirō Shibutani and Kaname Oyaizu in 1887 as (" Naughty stories ").

The Brazilian slave-hunter, 1823, by Johann Moritz Rugendas.

The Batuque ( music ) | Batuque practiced in Brazil of the 19th century, in a painting by Johann Moritz Rugendas

The first electric boat was developed by Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia-a boat which carried 14 passengers at 3 mph.

Mendelssohn, Lavater and Lessing, in an imaginary portrait by the Jewish artist Moritz Daniel Oppenheim ( 1856 ).

Archduke Franz Joseph in 1840 ( portrait by Moritz Michael Daffinger | Moritz Daffinger ).

Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction, an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis, and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis.

This feat would later occur at the next Winter Olympics in St. Moritz where Switzerland won only a single bronze medal, the lowest ever output by a host nation at an Olympics.

Leopold Zunz by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim

In 1969, Lichtenstein was commissioned by Gunter Sachs to create Composition and Leda and the Swan, for the collector's famous Pop Art bedroom suite at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz.